"BLACK POWER” HEADS FOR SCRAP HEA
Catholic Church is Scored For 'Dragging Feet’
★★★ ★ .
Coroner M. W. Bennett Says,
Student Admits Giving Birth
In Wake School’s Rest Room
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VOL. 25, NO. 48
MASS. SEN. BACKS BROOKE
Layman Os
Church Is
r Quoted
NEW YORK—A prominent.
Roman Catholic layman strong
ly criticized his Church Mon
-4 day for dragging its feet on
the issue of racial justice.
In a signed article appearing
in the current issue of Look
Magazine, John A. McDermott,
executive director of the Cath
olic Interracial Council of Chi
cago, charged that “racism has
spread like an infection
throughout the Catholic
Church.”
When it comes to race, he
said, the Catholic Church on
the human level “is more white
than it Is Christian.”
In his strongly-worded arti
cle, McDermott said “the truth
Church leaders must face is
that racism is a pernicious
evil that requires strong, not
soft action.
“Sofne pastors fail to act
because they are afraid or baf
fled about what to do. They
can be helped by their bishop.
$ But there are some pastors who,
' it must be said, are simply
bigots.”
McDermott commented that
much resistance to racial in-
(See CATHOLIC CH„ P. 2)
AMEZ Church
Gives 200 G’s
To Colleges
SALISBURY—The A. M. E.
Zion Church has become in
creasingly interested in impro
ving the facilities of its edu
cational institutions to the
extent that a special com
mittee, composed of bishops,
general officers, ministers and
laymen, met here last week
and instituted a voluntary fund
raising drive to make $200,000
available to Lomax-Hannon
Junior College, Greenville,
Ala., Clinton Junior College,
Rock Hill, S.C., and Living
s stone College, located here.
The junior colleges will re
ceive $100,000.00 which will be
used for building dormatories,
while the $100,000.00 which
Livingstone will receive is ex
pected to complete the deno-
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PROTEST \VAR--New York: Pickets protesting the war in Viet Nam demonstrate in Brooklyn's
Albee Square October 12th as President Lyndon Johnson campaigns in the area for New York
Democratic candidates. At least five demonstrators were detained by police in the area after
they tangled with federal agents guarding the President. (UPI PHOTO).
North Carolina ’# Leading Weekly
RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1966
MASS. SENATOR AND PROTEGE* Boston: U. S. sen
ator Leverett Saltonstall, of Mass., is shown on the right
with State Attorney General Edward Brooke, who is seeking
the retiring Senator's seat. They are seen here together
after a news conference in which Saltonstall vigorously en
dorsed Brooke to “be our next Senator.” (See story).
State’s NAACP Has New
Ciytfs Haiabew rawer 1
FY J.B. HARREN
The Ministers’ Division of
the North Car olina NAACP
Conference was keynoted here
Thursday with an address by
the Rev. J.T. McMillan, Win
ston-Salem, with a call for
“Rainbow Power”--black and
white, all races and religions
and creeds working together
for the common good of all
Americans. The slogan was
adopted by the convention.
However, at the closing busi
ness session Saturday night
some objection was raised by
a few delegates who felt NAACP
had sufficient credo in its open
policy to serve all races.
Some sixty ministers attend
ed the power-packed program
arranged for them by N.C.
NAACP president Kelly M.
Alexander, Sr., Rev. W. E.
Banks, and Charles A. McLean,
field secretary for Tarheelia’s
107 NAACP branches and col
lege and youth chapters. Mc-
Lean, had corresponded with
two thousand ministers in a
vain effort to get more to par
ticipate in the conference.
Citing the extreme poverty
of most Negroes—up to 22 per
cent unemployed, up to 40 per
cent school drop outs, and in
come scales (rural) from $1,213
to $1,500 average as compared
with the $4,000 average for
rural whites--McMillan urged
the so-called “middle-class
(See STATE NAACP, P. 2)
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KELLY M. ALEXAh
PRICE IS CENTS
Attorney
Genera!
Gets Nod
BOSTON, Mass.--Sen. Leve
rott Saltonstall has enthusias
tically endorsed the candidacy
of Atty. General Edward W.
Brooke as his successor in the
United States Senate.
Sen. Saltonstall came to Bos
ton from Washington, D.C. re
cently for the sole purpose of
endorsing Brooke, campaigning
for him, and Introducing the U.S.
Senate candidate at a. huge rally
at Harvard University attended
by 1300 students from 63 Mass
achusetts colleges and univer
sities.
At a joint press conference
with Brooke and at Harvard,
before the large and respon
sive audience, Sen. Saltonstall
issued the following statement:
“I am here to Introduce to
all of you my successor in the
U.S. Senate and to commend
him to you. He will be a
fine Senator, Industrious, for
ward-looking, alert to the best
interests of our state and na
tion. It is not easy for me
to leave the Senate where I
have spent 22 years but I want
to tell you that I feel a great
deal better about leaving, know
ing that it is likely that I
(See SEN. BACKS, P, 2)
Plan Second
Notables’
Banquet Here
W. R. Collins, Hammocks
Beach Expansion Director, has
announced that the second an
nual Notables Benefit banquet
has been scheduled for Friday,
November 4, at 7:30 p.m. in
the dining room on the cam
pus of Shaw University, Raleigh.
The banquet is a feature of
the Hammocks Beach Corpo
ration in the interest of a mem
orial to be dedicated in honor
of the late Dr. William Sharpe
and his widow Mr. Josephine
W. Sharpe, donors of the Ham
mocks property. The total
property consisted of more than
4,000 acres of land, and was
deeded to the North Carolina
Teachers Association as a gift.
(See BANQUET SET. P. 2)
From R»lei(rh’« Official p,.i* pvi
Officer Is Held,
Punched In Eye
Officer Eckerd Winston of the
Raleigh Police Department, re
ported at 9 p.m, Friday that he
was patrolling the playing field
last Friday night during the
L1 gon-Barber football game.
He stated, “A gang of about
200 boys were gathered around
one boy, who was on the
ground.”
Officer Winston said, “When
I went over there to try to find
out what was wrong, several
boys grabbed me by the legs,
while Lorenzo Jones Mitchell
hit me twice in the left eye.,
Although young Mitchell, ad
dress unknown, was “hauled
off” to Wake County Jail on a
charge of assault and battery
on an officer, Winston was un
able to sign warrants on the
others, because he could not
identify them. He had a slight
ly swollen left eye.
Junior
At Dubois
High
BY STAFF WRITER
WAKE FOREST—A 17-year
old Junior at Dußois Elementary
and High School here, informed
Wake County Coroner Marshall
W. Bennett and other county
law enforcement officials last
weekend, of how she gave birth
to a strapping 7 pound, 9 ounce
baby daughter in one of the
school’s rest rooms Friday af
ternoon, placed the infant in a
plastic bag, and finally cover
ed the bag with trash after
placing it in a rubbish recep
tacle.
Miss Margaret Harris, ofthe
Barham’s Siding section of the
county, slightly north of here,
admitted to the coroner that
she gave birth without assis
tance, tore the umbilical cord
herself, went to the office of
the principal, Thomas J. Cul
ler saying she was ill, and was
granted permission to leave
for home.
The infant apparently suffo
cated and was found by one
of the school’s custodians, who
went directly to the principal’s
office.
Mr. Culler is said to have
then called the Wake Forest
Police Department, which con
verged on the institution short
ly thereafter. Inquiries were
reportedly made of the admin
istration as to whether any girl
student had been dis mi s sed
from school because of illness,
and the principal is said to
have remembered excusing
Miss Harris before the normal
time for school to end for the
day.
(See STUDENT ADMITS, P. 2)
City Man,
Woman Shot
In Brawl
Raleigh police officer R.T.
Justice and Alcoholic Beverage
Control officer W, A. Sparkman
reported at 12:30 a.m. Tues
day, “We were leaving the rear
door of the police station when
we heard shots and people
screaming, coming from the
direction of W. Morgan Street,
As the officers drove up
S. McDowell to Morgan and
dowm Morgan to the Union Bus
Terminal, they saw Bennir Ed
ward Fort, 19, standing in front
of the bus station. He had
been shot in the arm.
Several people then informed
the cops that the alleeed run
(See SHOOTS MAN. P. 2)
w kath i: h
Temperatures for the next
five days, Thursday through
Monday, will average two to
seven degrees below normal.
Normal high and low tem
peratures for this time of the
year are 71 & 46 degrees. Ra
ther cool weather will prevail
throughout the period, except
for a warming trend toward
the end of It. Precipitation will
average 3 to 4 tenths of an
Inch, occurring as scattered
showers at the beginning of
the period and again about
the last half of the period.
Man Scalded At
Kitchen Table
James Edward Williams, 30,
of 1123 Alston Street, told two
cops at 7:25 p.m. Saturday at
Wake Memorial Hospital, that
while he was eating dinner at
the kitchen, Madley Doe, 32,
of the same address, came into
the kitchen and knocked a metal
pot of scalding water on him.
Mr. Williams declared Doe did
this on purpose.
Doe, however, had a diffe
rent version of the incident.
“It was an accident," declared
Mr. Doe. Williams suffered
first degree burns on the left
side of his hip.
He was referred by the desk
officer at headquarters, to the
solicitor of city court in case
he wanted to prosecute.
(See CRIME BEAT, P. 3)
RELATIVES WEEP FOR MOM, 3 CHlLDßEN—Pittsburgh,
Pa; Tears are shed by relatives of a mother and her three
children who perished in early morning fire here October
13, Dead in the Garfield district blaze were, Mrs. Virginia
Waring, 22, and her children, Carmen, 4, Dana, 2, and Pa
tricia, 11-months. (UPI PHOTO).
Urban League Praises LBJ
For Social Security Stand
NEW YORK—The National
Urban League, Thursday com
mended President Johnson on
his announced plan to increase
Social Security benefits by 10
percent for all 22 million bene
ficiaries in 3 statement by
Jeweldean Jones, NUL asso
ciate director, Health and Wel
fare.
“Such an increase would en
hance the dignity and security
of thousands of Negroes now
approaching retirement who
were lucky enough to have held
jobs covered by Social Securl
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EDITORIAL FEATURE
The Thought Exchange
By Gordon B. Hancock
WHOSE THE GREAT AND
SOLEMN TASK?
“Into the Silent Land! Ah, who shall
lead us thither"? Thus readeth the op
ening stanza of the beautiful “Song ol
the Silent Land" by Johan Gaudens vor
Sails, as translated by Longfellow. Para
phrased to read, “The Promised Land,
Ah who shall lead us thither” we have
the motivating thought of this release.
Some days ago we wrote on “The Key
To Our Critical Situation,” and con
cluded by saying that LEADERSHIP
was the key to the critical situation now
confronting the Negroes who are being
thrown for a loss by reasons of current
riots, and rioting here and there about
the nation. It takes a super-optimist to
see any good that these rioters are do
ing the Negro’s cause. Os course, we are
surrounded with those who can “ex
plain” these riots, but the situation is
calling for more than explanations; we
must find away to move forward from
here. The resentment that the rioters
feel are felt by all of us, but the imple
mentation of these resentments construc
tively, and finding away out calls for
more than “hunches” and emotional out
bursts; the situation which has develop
ed and is developing, calls for great
leadership if we are to enter the Promis
ed Land of full citizenship. “The Prom
ised Land, Ah who shall lead us thith
er?” A divided and frustrated leadership
cannot lead us through the morass and
maze of a complicated and complicat
ing situation. Only a few short months
ago we felt that we were in sight of the
Promised Land; but our squabbling and
bickering among ourselves would indi
cate that we are still wandering in the
wilderness of confusion. It is true that
we have many so-called leaders, each
content to go his own way so long as he
can get the headlines of the nation’s dai
lies. We have a few men with leadership
ability but they refuse to go into a hud
dle and come up with a Program for the
Negro masses. Our masses have been
deserted by our educators and privileg
ed classes to all intents and purposes.
What program we have is designed to
advance our elite, but no provision is
made for our masses, which must be
lifted ere we enter the Promised Land.
Our educators have succeeded admirab
ly in getting the sights of the race setting
high; and there is nothing wrong about
ty for the last quarter cent
ury,” Miss Jones said.
“Historically, many low in
come people, especially Ne
groes, were excluded from
Social Security coverage be
cause of the nature of the jobs
they held. In the early days
of the Social Security program,
the exclusion of such categories
as farm labor and domestic ser
vice automatically by-passed
the majority of Negroes and
left them without protection in
their old age. These elderly
(See URBAN LEAGUE, P. 2)
high aims! It has come about that our
schools have turned out a generation of
star-gazers. And for certain fortunately
positioned persons, star-gazing is mighty
fine. But the real issues that will deter
mine whether the Negro in this country
can survive the cut-throat competition
that confronts the race will not be de
termined by he star-gazers, but by the
job-gazers. Our educational set up ut
terly overlooks this stubborn and ugly
fact.
Our schools are turning cut those who
not only spurn menial and manual tasks,
but teach the pupils who must live by
menial and manual tasks to despise and
spurn such tasks. This is not only un
fortunate but dangerous. In a city in
which Negroes are singing “unemploy
ment blues,” the daily papers are car
rying the complaint that there is a short
age of maids and janitors in the school
system. Janitor jobs that offer as much
as S4OO per month are going begging.
The same situation obtains in many cit
ies. These places will be filled, even if
refugee Cubans and poor whites, and
foreigners have to be called in to fill
them. My back-alley is tended by white
men who man the garbage trucks. The
white men who are caught in the Negro’s
net of the underprivileged are not star
gazing, they are doing what they have
to do to make a living. If whites are do
ing it, Negroes will have to do it too.
Nearly every little Negro urchin I meet
and ask what he wants to be when
grown, readily replies, “I want to be a
doctor.” Good for him, if he can make
it, but the odds are against him. But just
what he will do if he misses his dream
of practicing medicine, and it is a won
drous dream, nobody is telling him. If
his teachers spurn menial and manual
labor, they cannot teach him to appre
ciate it as a means of lifting himself to
a higher rung of life’s ladder. It is migh
ty bad to have our young generation ed
ucated with “champagne tastes” and a
“Coca-Cola pocket-books.” Or to put it
another way, it is mighty serious to train
the children to have a “Cadillac com
plex” with a “Model-T Ford” opportun
ity. Who is to lead us thither? Not the
ministers, not the schools and so-called
educators, they are too far from reality.
The Negro newspaper must lead the Ne
gro through here if indeed the Negro is
led.' They are closest to the people who
need help most.
Leaders
Denounce
Advocates
NEW YORK (NPI)--"Black
power" appeared to be ready
for the civil rights scrap-heap,
as Bayard Rustin charged that
the concept’s propagation is
"harmful" and moderate civil
rights leaders considered dis
owning the "black power" bloc
altogether.
At the same time, Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell (D.-N.Y.) cau
tioned that black power can have
no truck with violence, and
Chicago Daily Defender, in a
poll of ghetto residents, re
vealed that Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., was a seven-to-one
favorite as a Negro leader over
black-power spokesman Stoke
ly Carmichael.
Rustin, executive director, A.
Philip Randolph institute and
a rights leader of long stand
ing, asserted that "black pow
er" lacks "any real value for
(See SCRAP HEAP, P. 2)
Sweepstakes
Boast Three
Mew Finns
There was one winner in
The CAROLINIAN Sweep
stakes feature last week. This
week’s winning numbers must
be on yellow tickets, dated
October 15, 196 G. The follow
ing are winning numbers:
6879, Ist prize, worth SSO;
8291, 2nd, worth S3O; and 70,
worth $lO, for first, second and
third.
New stores and du sin esses
joining the Sweepstakes feature
this w'eek are: Eckerd’s Drug
Store, Fayetteville Street, Ter
ry’s Furniture, E. Martin, and
National Market, E. Martin.
Mr. Charles Haywood Smlti
of Route 3, Raleigh, won third
prize in The CAROLINIAN
Sweepstakes last week. Mr.
Smith picked up the winning
ticket at the Jewel Box on
Fayetteville Street. The winn
ing number was 3513 worth
(See SWEEPSTAKES, P 2)